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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-04
RECIPES.

A Novel Plum Pudding.-One pound
mashed boiled carrots, or potatoes Carrots
are better) one pound beef suet chopped
fine one pound of -four mixed with mo.
teaspoonful Of ground cloves one teaspoon
full of ground allspice, one teaspoonful of
grated nutmeg, and little salt. Boil for
three and half hours.
Scones-Put two pounds of flour in a
bowl and add salt to taste. Make hole in
the middle of the flour and stir in, gently,
one quart of sour milk in which has been
dissolved half teaspoonful of cream tar
tar and one teaspoonful of soda. The
dough should be thick enough to be lifted
on the pa tsboard and rolled into the shape
Of the pan. 1t must not be kneaded. Bake
in a hot oven.
Beef Fritters.-Beef fritters are nice for
breakfast. Chop pieces of steak or cold
roast beef very fine Make batter of -four,
milk and an egg and mix the meat with it.
Put lump OF butter into a saucepan. let it
melt, then drop the batter into it from q
large spoon. Fry until brown; season with
pepper and salt and little parsley.
Je1lied Chicken. Boil a chicken until the
meat slips easily from the bones, then re-
duce the liquor in which it has been boiled
to about one pint. Pick off the meat in
good sized pieces, taking out all the fat aud
bones. Skim the fat from the liquor, add
little butter, and pepper and salt to taste,
and one-half ounce of gelatine. When the
gelatine is dissolved bring the liquor al
most to boiling point, and then pour it
over the chicken. Season the liquor very
highly, rs the chicken absorbs much OF the
flavor.
Rose Jelly.-One box of gelatine soaked
in pint of cold water, juice OF four
lemons, two cups OF sugar; add to this one
quart of boiling water, beat to froth the
whites of ten eggs. then strain the boiling
water and gelatine over the eggs and beat
until it congeaIs; flavor with vanilla; color
halt of this mixture with extract of straw
berry, put the pink on top and serve with
rich cream sweetened and favored with
vanilla or boiled custard.
Orange Snow.-One ounce of. isinglass
dissolved in pint of boiling water; when
IL is diaso lived strain 1t, and let 1t stand
until 10 is nearly cold; then mix with it
the Juice of six oranges and one lemon, the
whites OF three eggs, and sugar to taste;
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-04
Fertility Restored by Cultivation.

An Aurelius IN. W correspondent OF
the Country Gentlemen writes: 1 have
read with much interest the recent articles
in your paper on the lost fertility of the
the soil and clover sickness. For what IL
may be worth, let me state my own OBJ
servation and part OF my experience.
The farm / now own and manage COM
prises ninety-fi acres, being part of 100
acre farm, which was divided in 1874. Pre-
vious TO the year 1868 the farm was owned
by a man who was a thorough farmer. aud
the soil had careful cultivation, resulting
in good paying crops of all kinds, particu-
larly of wheat and clover, with no other
fertilizing than the yearly supply of farm
yard manure and the use of plaster on the
clover crops at the rate Of two and one-half
bushels to the acre.
After 1868. son of the former owner had
the management OF the farm, aud farmed
it the same IS his father in all respects, ex-
cept the thorough cultivation, and after
two or three years began to see a failure
in the crops OF all kinds. In the year 1874,
the farm was divided by selling to two par
ties-ninety-five acres to one and sixty-6Ve
to the other-and the method OF farming
was not improved by the new owners. In
the year 1870 purchased the niuety-fve
acres, and the sixty-fye acres are owned
and managed by the same person who
bought them in 1874.
AS 10 my own experience, Will say that
for the first two or three years wss not
successful in getting good crops, and re-
sorted to fertilizers, together with the
farm yard manure and the continued use
OF plaster. The use of plaster still think
benefits the clover crop; the farm yard
manure always benefits; as to the CONNER
cial fertilizers have not used any 10 two
years. When / did use them failed to
get any benefit most of tue time.
IIow think have brought the ninety
FIVE acres bacK to the state of fertility il
possessed in 1868, by thorough cultivation
and what proves it to me is this: Last
year / had field of wheat adjoining a
SINH ar field on the sixty-ive acres; both
had the same kind CT soil. I harvested
thirty-six bushels per acre and my neigh
Dor not quite twenty. Owing to the rains
| 1.-THE wolst ever known for harvest ia this
country, think lost from three to four
bushels per acre, while my neighbor,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-04
FARM NOTES.

Corn that is ia the least degree affected by
rust should never be used.
Farmers are reported TO consume 81, 900
tons OF Irvine per year on self-binding har-
Yesters.
For an early beet the eclipse is the best.
1t should be grown on old ground to get
the best results.
Roses of all kinds delight in high living
and sunshine. You can not starve them
into their best behavior.
Avoid strong food with your breeding
sows, as it inhames the blood and produces
feverish condition.
Quiet kicking COW simply by putting q
strap in her mouth and buckling it tightly
behind her horns.
planting for profit or for adornment
requires care and discrimination, as much
as raising crops or focks and herds.
The most beautiful white tea rose is the
bride. 1t thrives well out of doors-so
does its other self, Catherine Mermet
pink
Save the soapsuds. Pour them over the
manure heap. They will not only add TO
the value of the manure, but assist in pre-
venting the escape of ammonia.
Carrot seed can be put into the ground
Just as soon as the soil can be worked. In
fact, the earlier the better, and we must
get the young plants up before hot
weather.
To make ton Of cornfodder worth as
much as the same weight of timothy hay,
add to the corntodder 500 pounds of grain
food. This will balance the account for
value.
A Vermont farmer plants a sunfower
seed instead of pole to each hill of beans.
The sturdy stalk answers for a pole. and
the seeds supply an excellent feed for
poultry.
The vine that bears the prettiest fruit
Wits heterophylla. It's berries are like
upon the same raceme green, pink and
blue.
Nitrate of soda is the best fertilizer for
early use if the soil is deficient in nitro
gen. 1t is a very soluble substance, and
plants appropriate it very easily. 1t also
performs chemical service in the soil,
and supplies soda as well as nitrogen. 1t
may be mixed with any other kind OF fer
tilizer.
As a tribute to the despised daisies,
Naturalist Pringle saws they are not half
appreciated. They never fail in a dry
season, and they grow and thrive on soils
where other forage plants could not exist.
Cut early, and cured quickly, they are
sweet and nutritious for cattle and horses,
and all kinds of stock eat them with rel
ish.
If you have old trees that have failed to
yield profitable crops of fruit, dig the soil
up thoroughly and then apply a good
dressing of well-rotted stable manure and
work thoroughly into the soil. Then, if
you have them, apply dressing of wood
ashes. If these fail to revive the trees,
after giving a good pruning it is about
past redemption, and should give way to
something better.
There is time in spring on ground entire
| ly naked to SOW oats or some other rapidly
| growing vegetable, to be turned under in
May as green manure. Oats are probably
best for this purpose, and in most cases a
| good seeding will cost little money. At
the height of eight or ten inches, which
they will speedily reach Unfair soil, they
| furnish an amount of plant food evenly
distributed oyer the surface that can not be
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-04
FREE RUM IN PROVIDENCE.
All the Evils of Liquor Selling WIthOu
the Income of License.

the Income OF License.
New York sun Special
.Since election prohibition, which was
farcical enough before has become COM
plete mockery, and free rum reigns in
Providence and throughout the State,
wherever rum has been sold, for there are
a few places in Rhode Island IN which pub
lie sentiment has not for many years per-
mitted the sale of liquor. There is reason
to believe, upon estimates made by cOmpe-
tent authority, that liquor is sold in more
places than before prohibition was en-
grated on the State Constitution. The
open bar-rooms were in many instances
closed when the prohibitory law was nom-
inally put in force, and a number
igrated 10 other cities, while others
remained TO carry on the battle
which has resulted so successfully.
But the club-roOms and kitchen .bar-roOms,
as they are called, sprang into existence
with the profusion of weeds, and score OF
club-rooms could be counted on one block
near the center of the city. One individual
who up to the prOhibitory period had
seldom seen q dollar ahead of present
necessities, saved about $1,000 in few
months from the profits of drinking club
of which he was the proprietor, and his was
not solitary instance. These club-rooms
being private concerns, with admittance
only for members and their trustworthy
friends, are beyond the reach of the police,
and no attempt has been made to inter-
fere with them, in this city at least. Tn
spoilers also have proved such disgraceful
failures in procuring evidence OF sales that
the police have of late confined themselves
to the prosecution of such places only
as could be shown to be public nuisances,
owing to the number OF drunkards
ana disorderly persons frequenting them.
Such was the situation before election.
Since election it has been interesting to
observe the emboldened attitude of the
keepers Of places where liquor is sold I'M
der the thin veil of dealing in unprohibited
beverages. Now they seem to consider it
no longer necessary to conceal their actual
traffic, and they conduct themselves very
much as in the times when licenses were
obtainable.
At,present, therefore, the people OF Prov
idence and other cities and larger towns
have free rum in place of license and all
the evils of the liquor traffic without the
income and power of control which license
afforded. The years experience may not
be as conclusive as to the impracticability
of prohibition as q ten or twenty years
trial would be, but it has been just as eff
fective In settling the question among the
sober, common-sense people Of the commu-
nifty. The General Assembly can not re-
peal prohibition, but that body can take
constitutional steps toward its repeal, and
this will undoubtedly be among Its earliest
movements.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-04
Food and Care of Brood Mares.
TPreirie Farmer.1

Il
a msjoritv of colts are raised from mares
that work more or less regularly on farms,
and while this is trying on the mares. il is
remarkable how well they do II given
proper food and care. Continuous bard
work, such that strong geldiDg can barely
endure, should never be required OF mares
kept for breeding purposes. Before foal-
ing the mare should not be driven at more
than very moderate gait, neither should
she be heavily loaded, especially when the
footing is poor. a week or so of rest
should always be allowed after foaling, and
che should not be allowed 70 become very
tired or warm. common mistake among
farmers consists in keeping their horses
through the spring on corn and hay alone.
For the brood mare this ration is plrtic
ularly poor, as she must furnish material
to grow muscles, bones and nerves in the
colt Corn not only lacks much of the
growth-makiDg material, but its one-sided-
ness has in 1t an element of injury. 1t is
heating rather than cooling. No one feed
comes so nearly answering the require
ments Of grain food Is do oats. Together
With good allowance of nice hay, oats
supply the wants OF the system
Mixing foods-or, more especially, c0m-
pounding rations-should receive more at
tentioR. Very often the farmer has 10 oats
for any of bis horses, and a substituts is
very desirable. He has plenty of corn, but
oats can not be purchased without paying
out money for them. In this case bran and
Oil-meal can be mixed with the corn so as
TO make good ration. The corn furnishes
cheap fat and hsatproducers, while the
bran and oil-meal furnish the pitrates of
growth producers. Bran and corn in equal
parts By weight furnish about TIE same
proportion of nitrates and fat-forme-s as
oats, and little less in weight Of this COM
biDed ration is required for a feed. Six
parts corn. three parts bran, and one part
ground Gil cake also furnish nearly the
same proportion OF the food elements, and
can be fed with good results IL care Is taken
to not increase the oil-cake beyond the dan
ger line. For general use this last mixture
is not so good a substitute for oats as the
former. A little more by weight is required
of this mixture for a feed than of oats.
Very little oil-cake should enter the ration
of the mare before foaling.
Green foods are adapted to keeping both
dam and colt in good condition. When
ever practicable they should be allowed to
run 10 the pasture together. Green fodder
should be fed in the barn If the mare is not
frequently out in the pasture. IL the mare
IL a poor mixer the proportion OF bran
should be increased. Where great many
chores make the time in the field each
half day rather short, it is usually best to
keep the colt In the barn or adjoining lot
while the mare is in the field. Bat where
the mare is absent full half days she is
irritated by the large quantity OF milk 10
the adder, and the colt is compelled to take
all this milk when the mare is heated n
Doth mares IN the team have colts they
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-04
USING UP THE SCRAPS.
Nothing Allowed to Go TO Waste in These
Days of Enterprise.

bdlkluOre
Every resident can recollect the immense
piles of waste tin from the can shops that
used to glitter in the holloWs of East Balti-
more and upon every dump in that section
a dozen years ago. The first use of this
waste was by poor man from the North,
who obtained permission to set up ma
chine in Smith q Wicks can shop in this
city. Here he bought scraps for almost
nothing, and cut out tin button stock to
send East. AfterYard the stamps for shap-
ing the buttons were introduced, and the
individual reaped large fortune from his
enterprise. The next use of tin scraps was
for smelling. The tin at first refused to
flow when subjected to the heat of the fur
mace. 1t was discovered that it would pay
to cut the tin coating chemically, and that
the sheet iron would then smelt and flow.
Out of this grew the manufacture of sash
weights, and few of them are now found
that are not made from tin scrap. Several
foundries use all that is made. The scrap
was pounded into wads by stamping it in
large buckets.
A most interesting feature of all bust
nesses using leather is that not one particle
of the leather is wasted. Our shoe fac
tories alone sell annually fifty tons of
waste. This goes mainly to a firm in
Philadelphia, who pay 81 q ton for it. a
large amount is sent to Lynn, Mass, and
other points, where the leather is ground
up, mixed with a medium, and pressed
into buttons. The remainder that is not
so used is treated chemically, turned into
gelatinoUs mass, dried, and ground into
fertiliZiDg dust. The sole leather pieces
that fall from the block of the heel stamper
are sorted into two heaps. The very small
pieces are put with the fine waste. The
| scraps presenting a surface of couple OF
square inches, are barrelled up and sold 10
| parties in New York or Boston at one cent
| a pound, where they are put through a
peculiar machine. This instrument splits
the pieces nearly through. Then it opens
the piece thus cut like a book. Thence II
| is delivered from between rollers, and is
| large enough to be again sent to the factory
| TO be cut up into heel lifts.
There is another small but important in
dustry which goes to prove how ordinary
/ wastes of business NAV be turned to &C
| count. This is q work OF long standing
though not generally known. In every
| photograph gallery there is annually
| large amount of waste silvered paper. Thi
is all thrown Into box, and is bought o.
exchanged for nitrate of silver. The com
| parstively small amount collected in on
| gallery aggregates great mass when all TIT
galleries are considered. This paper i
burned, and the silver that is extracted
from the residue pays sufficiently st leas
for good living. The time was, not YER
remote, too, when the coal tar from ga
! houses was a nuisance in every hRrbOI
Now every bit OF the tar is utilized, aut
some of the finest dyes ever known ar
made from it.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-04
To DiaIodge fhe EnemY.

When it takes the form Of disease OF the kidneys
or bladder, is a task well nigh impossible of &C
eomplishment. Renal ana veslcal maladies are
more obstinate than any others. Counterfeit,
therefore, the earliest indications Of inactivity
of the many organs with Hostetter's Stomach
BitteYs, which possesses, among other excellent
qualities, those Of an efficient diuretic. The de-
gree OF stimulation apparent from its use
reaches, but never goes beyond the bounds of
safety, II invigorates always, never irritates.
Bright's disease, diabetes, catarrh Of the blad'
der, are diseases successfully combatted in their
incipiency with this benign medicinal stimu-
LIANT and tonic. Besides reinforcing and regulat-
ing the kidneys and bladder, the Bitters Is a
specific for fever and ague constipation and
dyspepsia,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-04
WOMEN AS SPECTATORS.
Their Judgment Sometimes Discounts
That of Their Lord and Master.


That of Their Lord and Master.
New York TrIbune.l
There is some gossip afioat lust now
about the success attending women who
take flyers in Wall street. Brokers say
that as a rule women have less idea of
what they want to do in the way of specu-
lating or buying securities than men have.
They go into it blindly and trust the
broker, who is generally more careful in
giving them advice than with his own sex.
a broker showed yesterday list OF securi-
ties that he vas about to deposit IN the
strong box of a safe deposit company for
one of his feminine customers. the value
OF which was almost $3.50 600. The owner
Is the keeper of a furnished-room house up
town, whose first Wall street investment
was made about two years ago on a capital
OF 81 600. There is q medium-siZed, black
eyed, black-haired, active woman seen fire.
quently about Wall street in these days,
whose volubility of tongue in discussing
coal and iron properties in the Northwest
and the new South is frequently demon
strated, who is said to have cleared $4,000
or $50 900 in the last year. She is 'broker-
ess," who carries her Office in her sachel
and looks for customers among her own
acquaintance.
In talking about women who have dab
bled in speculation, a story is told OF q
over the Tennessee coal and iron stock
last December just before it had
the big drop. The wife had
brought her husband q considerable
property at their marriage and generously
turned 1t all over to his disposition. Her
judgment was against the buying of the
stock in which he had become interested.
She had fair bank account of her own,
and when she found that he was deter
mined to buy the stock at high price she
drew out every dollar she had and sold the
stock short. He came home three or four
nights afierward with face as long as the
moral law and a disposition to commit sui
eide. 1t was quickly changed to rejoicing
when his wife showed him a note iron her
broker announcing the closing OF her
transactions with a profit double the
amount which her husband had lost. He
has sworn off on stock speculation, and
they sailed not long ago on pleasure trip
to the Burmudss.
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got in any other way so cheaply, and the
fertility thus obtained is Immediately
available. If phosphate or other concen-
trated manure be drilled in with the oats
it will benefit the succeeding crop even
more than if saved and applied to that di-
rectly.
The first planting of anything in spring
should be covered very lightly. While the
soil is cold from deep freezing or ice water
during winter the sun warns it only lit
tie below the surface. There is always
moisture enough in early spring to bring
seeds up, and once they are terminated
the plants will give their roots all the
needed covering by striking down into the
soil when this is better for their growth.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-04
usually play together, and are not much, If
any, bother in the field.
Sheep and Cattle.
Farm, Field and StOekman.I

Sheep and Cattle.
Farm, Field and StOckman.l
Any farmer who keeps eight or ten COWS
can keep an equal number OF sheep with
out feeling the expense, except little
grain to be paid for, which will be more
than Offset by the money received for the
wool, which ought TO weigh five pounds
and bring on an average 81 25. The lamb,
if an early one and sold to the butcher in
April, ought to bring Sc, and If sired by
thoroughbred Down ram, would possibly
bring 81 more. If the lambs are late and
not salable before July or August, they
should bring at least 81. the eve, If prop
erly fed, Will be worth more than Wnen
purchased. The keeping for year, in
Guiding grain, will be worth 81, which ex-
pense will be paid by the sale of the lamb,
leaving the wool as clear profit. Deduct
ing One-half for accidents, we have profit
of II per cent. on the first cost and all ex-
penses paid, which, in these days Of cheap
money, ought to be called fairly prohta-
bic investment.
The objection raised against sheep hus-
bandry is-dogs. I grant dogs are a nuis-
ancs to the shepherd, and so they are to
him who raises poultry, but we have dog
law that is pretty good, not as good as we
could wish, but still good enough to cover
all risks if one really wants to keep sheep.
We should keep enough sheep in each town
ana village Oh the COMMUNICABLE W give
the dogs q liberal education. They Will
soon Learn, but as it is now, sheep are so
seldom seen that dogs think they ought to
be put out of the way as nuisance, as
though they were wild beasts or vermin.
OF course, there are some dogs that are
naturally bad, as there are some bad boys.
Do with the dogs as we sometimes want TO
do with the boys-kill them and plant
them four feet under ground.
The speaker recommended dipping every
newly purchased sheep in some good sheep
dip. to kill ticks and cure scab, and to re.
peat the dipping at the end of seven or
eight days. If one starts with a clean flock,
it is easy keeping them clean, but if either
ticks or scab are allowed to get start,
there is likely to be long job ahead. Bells
on the neck OF sheep are useful in several
ways. If the sheep get out of the pasture,
they are found easily; if a dog gets in, the
ringing of the bells very often will discon-
cert HIM, and if the sheep run with fright,
they are sure to be heard by some one on
the farm, unless the pasture is a long way
of.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-04
John t. Raymond's Name.


Octogenarian Joe Rivers, of the Academy
Of Music, was Keeling off "reminiscences of
John 7. Raymond, when he was asked how
the dead actor came to assume that name.
He said, in musing way:
'Raymond's father was John O'Brien, a
clever fellow, who worked in wig store
and barber shop on State street in Roch-
ester. That was as long ago as
1928. John came here about 1882,
when Buffalo was wee bit Of place COM
pared with what it is now, and the people
were poor. There were two pretty girls
who lived with their mother on Peacock
street, which was a very respectable
thoroughfare then, and they helped her in
a laundry which she ran, John O'Brien
married one of the girls and Steve Thone,
a detective, captured the other. John I.
O'Brien, or Raymond, was the first born.
At that time Tim Raymond and myself
were actors, and gave a very clever ma
gician act, better than some / see now
adays. We were playing in the Kremlin
Museum and .other places. John o Brien
took quite a shine to my partner, and the
boy adopted his name when he went on
the STAGE"